The OccupyUSA Blog for Tuesday (Dec. 27), With Frequent Updates

December 27, 2011

I’ve been live-blogging OWS here daily since October 1. Email: epic1934@aol.com. All times ET. Mynew e-book is "40 Days That Shook the World: From Occupy Wall Street to Occupy Everywhere." Most of my other books here.

2:40 Justin Elliott of Salon on The Occupiers in Winter — keeping in touch and keeping it going via regular web contacts and conference calling. "It’s immensely valuable to have a place once a week where people come together from across the country and share ideas and their hopes for what the movement can accomplish.”

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2:15 If you missed a few days ago, a local — very local — bank up near my old stomping grounds in upstate — way upstate — New York really tries to help people, not profits.

11:30 Must-read from Newsweek: How Wall St has destroyed "the wonder that was America." And: "As 2011 slithers to its end, none of the major problems that led to the crisis point three years ago have really been solved."… Some Occupy wins, on smaller scale, you may not have heard about….

10:00 Good new video on OWS helping family in struggle for home. Just one example, but needs more of this….Paul Krugman rates economists and how they bungled meltdown and crisis.

9:30 My taped segment with Chuck Todd for his MSNBC "Daily Rundown" show on my book just aired, will put up tape later. For now, here is my video, inspired by my book, on the first use of a screen "attack ad" to destroy a candidate–author Upton Sinclair, who was leading a mass movement against poverty. And my lengthy piece about it all here at The Nation.

9:00 Will OWS fizzle if it doesn’t jump into 2012 election campaign? This writer thinks so and is disappointed so far.

8:15 The 25 richest members of Congress….15 million wasted words to go on what will be meaningless Iowa caucus. I have 4 words for you: Steve Forbes. Mike Huckabee.

12:35 Eric Schmidt, the Google chief, says no one talks about Occupy and the 99% in Silicon Valley because they live in a bubble and don’t really have the typical economic problems. This piece shows how wrong he is.

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12:05 Allegedly I’ll be on Chuck Todd’s MSNBC show tomorrow somewhere between 9:15-10 am, talking about my book on how the modern campaign came to be – -inspired by Upton SInclair’s EPIC anti-poverty movement in 1934.

12:00 This D.C. streamer says her Ustream account has been subpoeneaed via a federal judge — she thinks because one video shows an alleged assault on a cop.

A new interview with Todd Gitlin on where OWS is at now and months ahead. "All movements are constantly influx. Occupy Wall Street has already learned so much from itself. It’s already polymorphous and various. There are a lot of activities going on that don’t make splashes in media. That will continue to be true through the winter months."

Occupy the Dream coming January 16, MLK Jr. day, as Faith joins with OWS….Occupy at Christmas: "One of my kids thinks I’m nuts, the other thinks I’m a hero."

Greg MitchellTwitter Greg Mitchell writes a daily blog for The Nation focusing on media, politics and culture. He is the former editor of Editor & Publisher and author of thirteen books. His latest book, on the 2012 Obama-Romney race, is Tricks, Lies, and Videotape. His other books include Atomic Cover-Up, The Campaign of the Century (winner of the Goldsmith Book Prize), two books related to WikiLeaks and a pair of books with Robert Jay Lifton on Hiroshima and the death penalty in America. His Twitter feed is @GregMitch and he can be reached at: epic1934@aol.com. His personal blog is Pressing Issues.